The Only Monument to Soviet Army Soldiers in the U.S.?
It’s in Plummer Park, the L.A./West Hollywood social hub for immigrants from the former USSR—I used to play there when I was a small child; my parents, like so many immigrants from there, moved at first to West Hollywood. The memorial was erected in 2005, long after I left that area, so it took an e-mail from my colleague Kal Raustiala for me to learn about it.
(The photo is from a Russian Embassy tweet; the memorial itself was created by emigr
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